More Swiftness
Aug. 20th, 2004 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
From the New York Times:
Friendly Fire: The Birth of an Anti-Kerry Ad
Not quoted here because the article is worth reading in full.
The links between Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and the Bush campaign aside - that really shouldn't surprise anyone; that 527 groups have common financial or communal links to the politicians they support also shouldn't surprise anyone; and connection does not equate coordination - what's interesting is the section a bit further down on the Times's checking into Larry Thurlow's story surrounding his and Kerry's Bronze Star and a neat summary of the problems with SBVT's allegations.
Friendly Fire: The Birth of an Anti-Kerry Ad
Not quoted here because the article is worth reading in full.
The links between Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and the Bush campaign aside - that really shouldn't surprise anyone; that 527 groups have common financial or communal links to the politicians they support also shouldn't surprise anyone; and connection does not equate coordination - what's interesting is the section a bit further down on the Times's checking into Larry Thurlow's story surrounding his and Kerry's Bronze Star and a neat summary of the problems with SBVT's allegations.
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Date: 2004-08-20 01:30 pm (UTC)I have seen claims that he said he was in Cambodia for Christmas "numerous" times during the 70s and 80s, but can't document this. That wouldn't change your point that he stopped saying it by 1994.